Welcome to the Evolutionary Genetics Research Group at UCI
The application of molecular and genetic tools to evolutionary questions
provides answers to some of the most fundamental questions in biology.
phylogenetic and phylogeographic analyses illuminate the evolutionary
history of life, population genetics provides insight into current
processes of gene flow and natural selection, and studies that incorporate
experimental evolution and functional genetics can give us a preview
of future evolutionary trajectories.
and power of modern genetic techniques can be applied to a diverse
array of academic disciplines, including studies of aging, behavior,
infectious disease, cancer, genomic evolution and the domestication
of plants and animals.
Genetics at UC Irvine
of Biological Sciences at UC Irvine
has attracted a preeminent group of evolutionary genetics researchers.
The Evolutionary Genetics faculty at
UCI is dynamic, growing, and includes more members of the National
Academy of Sciences in evolutionary biology than any other institution.
There are strong
linkages between the evolutionary genetics group within the Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and evolutionary geneticists
throughout the UCI campus, including other departments in the School
of Biological Sciences, the School
of Medicine, and the bioinformatics
program in the School of Information
and Computer Sciences.
available to evolutionary geneticists at UCI include the UCI
Protein Expression Facility, the DNA
Core Facility, the UCI
Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy facility and the shared
molecular facility in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary